guideway

[gahyd-wey]

noun

a structure, usually made of concrete, that is used to support and guide trains or individual vehicles that ride over it.

Origin of guideway

1875–80, for an earlier sense; guide + way¹

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Examples from the Web for guideway

Historical Examples of guideway

Fig. 1613 represents a section of one guideway of a table and bed.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II
Joshua Rose
But s being guided by its slide in the guideway traverses in a straight line.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II
Joshua Rose
He had lost his one opportunity, the one guideway that Western life could afford the artist in him.
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
Van Wyck Brooks
Anything might have come of that impulse if it had had the least protection, if it had been able to find a guideway.
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
Van Wyck Brooks